Your "Sunday Baroque" host Suzanne Bona adds her suggestions to our summer book lists.
- Companion to Baroque Music (Compiled and edited by Julie Anne Sadie; University of California Press 1990) This is a good all around reference book.
- Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (by James R. Gaines; Harper Perennial 2005)
- The New Bach Reader: A Life of Johann Sebastian Bach in Letters and Documents (edited by Hans T. David and Arthur Mendel, revised and expanded by Christoph Wolff; WW Norton 1998)
- Handel (by Christopher Hogwood; Thames & Hudson 1996)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (by Christoph Wolff; WW Norton 2000)
- Vivaldi: Voice of the Baroque (by H.C. Robbins Landon; University Of Chicago Press 1996)
- Master Musicians Series: Vivaldi (by Michael Talbot; Oxford University Press 2000)
- Master Musicians Series: Handel (by Donald Burrows; Oxford University Press 2001)
Here's a link to more summer reading recommendations.
